The person I was seeing at the time told me they were in love with me only a week and a half in… and that was odd for me at the time because I wasn’t even sure if I liked them. They became a little obsessed too…constantly calling and calling back just seconds after talking. I couldn’t take it anymore and broke things off with them while at a friends place…left… leaving them with no ride home.

A couple years later while at work they saw me and continued to stop by (kinda stalkerish) for weeks and finally told them to leave me alone…

I wrote the song after this experience in early 2000 and did a rough recording of it with just vocals, guitar and bass.
After meeting Adam (Pollution Lake Sound) through my brother, we started recording my EP ‘renovations’ this song was the 4th track. Neat fact… we used my grandfathers metal LP to get the old record sound on the beginning and end of the song.

The lyrics are a jab at the entire situation… “I’m sorry for not loving you the way that you love me, but I guess that’s just the way it had to be..” probably my favourite line from the song. Sorry if you thought the song was about a broken heart…

You can listen to the track here:

https://jamierumley.bandcamp.com/track/had-to-be

If there’s a song of mine you’d love the back story to, leave it in the comments below.

Enjoy and have a great week!

Cheers,

Jamie